. Arctic zoology .. . nine eggs,white, thinly fpotted with red. Has the fame actions with theEuropean Wren : fings, but with a different note. Retires fouthin Augufl. The EuropeanY\x\^ reaches to the Feroe ifles ; where it enters thecottages, to peck the dried meat of the inhabitants *. Found alfoin Norway; but not far north. Rare in Sweden and Rujfia. Un-known in Sihifia^ Little Sparrovsr ? Catefiy, i. 3;. ,323. Bush ?• Hedge Sparrow, Latv/oti; 144.—Latham, n. ^zo. With the body entirely brown. Lefs than the European Hedge Sparrov/. Mr, Catejhjfays, that it partakes much of the nature of that
. Arctic zoology .. . nine eggs,white, thinly fpotted with red. Has the fame actions with theEuropean Wren : fings, but with a different note. Retires fouthin Augufl. The EuropeanY\x\^ reaches to the Feroe ifles ; where it enters thecottages, to peck the dried meat of the inhabitants *. Found alfoin Norway; but not far north. Rare in Sweden and Rujfia. Un-known in Sihifia^ Little Sparrovsr ? Catefiy, i. 3;. ,323. Bush ?• Hedge Sparrow, Latv/oti; 144.—Latham, n. ^zo. With the body entirely brown. Lefs than the European Hedge Sparrov/. Mr, Catejhjfays, that it partakes much of the nature of that fpecies. Mr. Law-fon fays, that the Hedge Sparrow of Carolina differs fcarcely from theEnglijh ; only that he never heard it fing. They are not nume-rous ; are ufually feen fingle, hopping under buflies : feed on in^fc6ts: and are commonly feen near houfes in Carolina and Virginia,, PtAci^ v/here they continue the whole year. •■ Erumich, N 284*. 4i5 N IG H T I N G A L E, A N D R E D S T A R A. Nightingale, Br. Zool. i. N* 145. Nachtergahl, Faun. Suec. N° —Latham, ii. 410. LeRoffignol, De Bujhn, v. Si.—PL Enl. 615.—Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. With head and neck tawny, dafhed with olive : throat,breaftj and belly, glofly afli-color: tail deep ^^^^ Inhabits the groves of Oland, Gothland, Upfal, and Schonen ; but not farther north. Appears about the middle of May: retires aboutthe time of hay-harveft*. Found in the temperate parts of RuJJia;and in Sibiria, as far as Tomjk only; not as yet in the eaftern in Scotland. Extends over every temperate part of Europe; toSyria f, Perfia J, and the Holy Land§ -, and to the banks of the Nile. B. Redstart, 5r. Zoo/, i. N 146. M. Phtenicurus Rodfljert, Faux. Suec. N 2!^].—Latham, ii. 421. Le Rofiignol de muraille, Z)^ 5»;;fo», v. 170.—PI, Enl. 351.—Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. \X7 With white front: crown and back deep blueifh grey : cheekand throat black : breaft, rump, and fides, red : two mi
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